Hi, you can use the Gparted Live CD to shrink the XP NTFS partition as I've described. Then only create a second physical partition formatted hfsplus for MacOSX.

Now, skip Linux install.

Install MacOSX to USB as I've described.

Then you need to copy the USB installation to the 2nd HDD partition: You don't have Linux so use either the Gparted Live CD, in that open a Terminal and command line to run parted and the cp command as I've described.

as you said in your guides
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"For an OS to be (easily) found and bootable by Chameleon,
it should be on a primary MBR partition. So, the partition scheme will be:

Since it only allow me to have 4 partitions, i would like to have this setup

WinXP - 140GB
Dellrestore - 10GB
OSX - 100GB
Storage - 50GB FAT32

I would like to keep the Dell Restore, and if i remove fat16 (Dell Utility) would that be okay?
Its it POSSIBLE?? cuz i would like to restore my windows xp just in case with Dell Restore in the future.

and also, after i make the HFS+ , when i exit Gparted, it give me nonstop

Just ordered an 11z which comes with Vista Home (yuk) and I want to dump this for something better - thought your article would fit the bill, but I am a little bothered about the (lack of) drivers for anything apart from Vista or Windoze 7

Am I going to have problems?

The drive is 250Gb so I could split this space up a bit but if the other OS can't run the machine there is not much point? I would have preferred XP if I have to use a Windoze OS in any event!

I have used GrUB on my home PC successfully for a while, not seen Chameleom but will look at this - this is the Apple equivalent of GrUB, yes?

Hi, thanks for the guide allan, I followed it and it worked for me... well mostly. The problem I have is I cannot properly copy osx from the flash drive to the hdd.

Like DDust I just just wanted osx and xp so I just created an extra partition of 40GB.

Also, DDust you might like to know I kept the Dell Restore Parition, so can confirm you can do this. If you want to keep this though you should first backup the MBR partition. You would have to then restore this partition should you ever want to access your Dell restore parition. I hope that makes sense.

Anyway to copy OSX from the flash drive to the hdd, I just booted into the GParted flash disk used for paritioning, opened a terminal window and then typed the copy commands as in the guide. HOWEVER this did not work properly because when view disk information in OSX it says the free space is only 5gb whilst the capacity is 40gb and the used space is 10gb. Is this what you have expericenced?

I am yet to try clonezilla, that is my next step, however what other ways are there to copy the fs over?

Side note for DDust:
I have got that boot error after trying to boot an empty hfs parition. I suspect you may also get it if you have not set up chameleon and just boot from the hdd. one thing to note, after you have set up chameleon you must set the osx partition to have the 'boot' flag.

For those interested, I did work out another way to copy the fs from the flash disk to the hdd. I used 'Carbon Copy Cloner' it is an excellent tool you just install it on the flash drive and use it to close the flash drive to the hdd.